Before my serendipitous encounter, I had my eye on the Motorola 89442N Universal External Cell Phone Battery, a pack about the size of a phone with a bantam micro-USB arm.
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My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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My first encounter with North Africa was as a child, when my father told fascinating, if unnerving, tales from his wartime stops in Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran in 1943, courtesy of the U.S. Air Force, but I had never been there myself.
My first encounter with the contraption was a few years ago at the 15th-century Convento Do Espinheiro in Portugal, where the toilets represent only a small portion of the area's charm.
My strangest encounter came during a visit to a theater in Munich to see "Get Carter" (the Michael Caine version, not the Sylvester Stallone one), and I was the first entrant.
My final encounter was later that year during exams.
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Gustav opened a door that ultimately led me to a desk where I would spend five years on a novel, attempting to capture some of the wonder I felt upon my first encounter in Stockholm.
Hours into the game, I still feel chills shoot down my spine at every zombie encounter because my survival is anything but guaranteed.
Case in point was my own recent encounter with a man who said he was developing the definitive biopic about Tupac Shakur.
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My own hair is straightened and has been for more years than I can remember, but when I wore my hair in braids, I would consistently encounter people asking a million questions about my hair.
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The relationship was a brief encounter with one of my teammates.
My grandfather could remember only one encounter with Luka, during a winter storm when Mother Vera had sent him out to buy a leg of lamb.
Like virtually everyone else who has had that encounter I whipped out my camera and recorded my disbelief for posterity and have been taking pelican pictures ever since.
But of all my wonderful memories, a single encounter with a monk offering to share an umbrella on a cold Christmas Eve remains the single most formative experience of my life.
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My view continues to be that the economy will encounter another sharp contraction.
Soap actor Zen Gesner ("All My Children") told CNN about a recent chance encounter with the Kerrys.
My grandfather did not know what to make of his encounter in the smokehouse, but his throat was tight when the blacksmith emerged from his house with the gun under his arm.
However, we did encounter a snag: when we searched for "My friends who like the San Francisco 49ers who also went to Stanford, " we encountered no results.
Two people of my choosing go where I want them to go and have a romantic encounter (or not).
Buber essentially says that modern man feels alienated and devoid of meaning because one mode of being, Encounter, is marginalized, echoing what Rachel Selekman said in my previous article.
My husband, in weighing the arguments, kept coming back to an encounter we had with Dr. Paul Fleiss, one of the pediatricians that we had initially interviewed when choosing a doctor years before.
Education is not my area, but a knowledge of economics and industrial structure is something that I encounter all the time in teaching in such fields as regulated industries and antitrust law.
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Away from home, it seemed as though every encounter and experience held more import, more chance for pain, than it did when I was inside my safe valley home.
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